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Saudia Flight 163 – A Tragic Chapter in Aviation History On the evening of August 19, 1980, Saudia Flight 163 took off from Riyadh, heading toward Jeddah. It had already completed the first part of its journey from Karachi to Riyadh, and now it was just one short flight away from reaching its final destination. On board were 287 passengers and 14 crew members, all expecting a routine journey across the Kingdom. Just a few minutes after takeoff, the crew noticed something was wrong. An alarm warn

Saudia Flight 163 was a scheduled Saudia passenger flight departing from Quaid-e-Azam Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, bound for Kandara Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, via Riyadh International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which caught fire after takeoff from Riyadh International Airport (now the Riyadh Air Base)[1] on 19 August 1980. Although the Lockheed L-1011-200 TriStar made a successful emergency landing at Riyadh, the flight crew failed to perform an emergency evacuation of the airplane